Nylon fish netting



Spt. 29, 1953 y vR. JOHNSN ET AL NYLON FISH NETTINQ .Filed O ct. 6, 1950 Patented Sept. 29, 1953 STATES @met 2,653,372 d u y n i v A WNYLoN Flsli NETTING Roland Johnson, Drummondville LWest, Quebec. 'andr YRoberti W. Kolb, Drummondville; Quebec,

Y Canada, assignors to Drummondville v(Lotton Company Limited, Montreal,llu'ebec,` Canada,

n Y a corporatioiio'f. Canada t Application October 6, 1950, Serial N o. 188,671 v, In-.Canada' February 18, i950 @abduction This invention relates to the manufacture of sh netting iromdnylon twine.

Nylon. twine has" many superior qualities` for fishnefts.' "Among/these areits high strength and the fact 'that it :does not tolerate'bacteriawhich live on linen and cotton twine. But, nylon nets have one particular shortcoming in that they are normally subject to slip-mesh. This is most undesirable since the mesh size is subject tol change up to a point where the netting may be ineiective or useless.

One attempt, known to the applicants to overcome slip-mesh, is to coat the netting with a resnous material. But, this is expensive both in the cost of the coating material used and also in the coating operation.

Applicants development The applicants have now developed a nylon netting which is characterized by the absence of slip-mesh and by the strands having a stretch substantially less than that of normal nylon twine. In accordance with the applicants invention, the knots are heat-set into the shape they assume when knotted, Without the necessity of using an extraneous coating material.

This knot can conveniently be set by a method, according to the invention, which includes the following steps.. The netting is first knotted in the usual fashion on a netting loom forming single weavers knots. Then the netting is immersed in a hot water bath at a temperature within the range from about 125 F. to about 200 F. for a period from about seconds to about 60 seconds while being kept under a tension suiiicient to maintain the form of the knot. The netting is removed from the bath and dried in air at a temperature from about 200 F. to about 300 F. suicient to dry the netting in the time it is exposed to the drying region at normal production speeds. These operations are performed in a continuous process in which the netting is fed from the loom under tension, through the bath, and then through a drying space under tension, and when dried, into a can. The tension is preferably not greater than of the breaking strength ofthe twine. The tension in drying may be the same as in wetting.

The invention will be further understood by reference to the accompanying drawings illustrating some of its preferred aspects, and in which:

Figure l is a diagrammatic illustration in side 2 clanes. (oli. zii-frei 2 elevationv of apparatus used in av preferred method ofy making fnettingin accordance: with. the vinyenftignMj g .a

Figures 2 and 34 are diagrammatic. illustrations ofnetting, according; to the invention,;.after:.use, demonstratingabsenceof .slip,k;no,t.

yFigures 4 andf5 ane-'cdiagrainmatic-illustrations of conventional netting after use, showing the result of slip-knot.

Detailed description Referring more particularly to the drawings, the netting A is shown in Figure 1 moving through the process. The netting, after forming the netting by applying single weavers knots to the twine in the conventional manner to form the net construction, the knots, as shown, being substantially evenly spaced apart and intervened by precise lengths of twine rst passes through a wetting tank I5 which contains Water at a suitable temperature, preferably within the range of about F. to about 200 F. From the tank I5 the netting proceeds through a drying chamber I9 in which the air is at a suitable temperature, for example within the range from about 200 F. to about 250 F. The netting then passes over a guide roller 20, and a driven roller 25. The nettingis held in contact with the roller 25 by a roller 21 mounted on a lever 28 pivoted as at 30 and counter-weighted as at 32. The netting is then deposited in a netting can 35. As shown and as mentioned above tension is kept on the netting from the time of knotting until the netting leaves the dry heating zone.

As a result of this treatment, the knots B in the netting retain their form as indicated in Figure 3, that is to say, the nylon has been heat-modified so that its elastic memory is eiiectively conned to a period subsequent to knot formation, so that the knots are set to retain substantially the form and relationship to the twine they were given when knotted. The netting is characterized by the absence of slip-mesh and retains the form when in spread-out condition as shown in Figure 2.

Slip-mesh, as will occur in ordinary nylon netting is shown in Figure 5. An ordinary nylon netting which has been in use and has undergone slip-mesh is shown in Figure 4. Contrast the advantage of netting according to the invention as shown in Figures 2 and 3 with that of prior art netting as shown in Figures 4 and 5;

The invention is applicable to netting made from twines of various sizes, for example,

denier/3, 21o/3 and higher plied muitip1es of 21o denier.

We claim:

1. Fish netting, comprising, uncoated nylon twine knotted with tight single weavers knots, the nylon having a heat-modied elastic memory effectively confined to a period subsequent to knot formation, the knots being substantially evenly spaced apart and intervened by precise lengths of twine and the knots being set to retain substantially the form and relationship to the twine they were given when knotted.

2. A method of making fish netting from nylon twine comprising, continuously performing simultaneously on successive lengths of nylon twine a knotting step to form the netting, and a setting step to subdue the elastic memory of the nylon, the knotting step being performed on a portion of a length while the setting step is be- .ing performed on a previously knotted portion of the length and the entire length is kept constantly under tension from the time of knotting until set, the setting step comprising passing the netting continuously through a bath of water at a temperature of from about 125 F. to about 200 F. and then through a dry heating zone at a temperature of from about 200 F. to about 300 F. at the normal knotting speed, whereby there is produced a netting in which the knots are tight and the elastic memory of the nylon is effectively confined to a period subsequent to knot formation.

ROLAND JOHNSON.

ROBERT W. KOLB.

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